Sally Buffington USEA Certified Instructor also is an accomplished professional artist. She specializes in portraiture and also has a line of Limited Edition prints that have been in Southern Living Magazine as well as Coastal Living Magazine. She has painted such notables as General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Honorable Henry Cisneros, Mayor of San Antonio Lila Cockrell and Mayor Nelson Wolf among others.

Her work has been covered by many television stations throughout the southeast and she has many portraits in private collections from North Carolina all the way down to Florida and across to California.

Her Limited Edition prints are all from award winning paintings and complete with the story behind each painting. The famed Orange Beach, Alabama series received national attention and the Governor of Mississippi presented her with gifts from the state during an official ceremony at the un-veiling of the final original of the series, 'Dolphins!'.

The painintgs and prints are in the process of being presented on this website. Stay tuned!

Below are some images of Sally and Absolut IV at the 2006 American Eventing Championships Preliminary Level.

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Sally Phillips Buffington is a USEA Certified Instructor who has competed through the FEI levels of Eventing. She is a member of the USEA, USEF, FEI, and GDTCA. Sally has successfully competed her thoroughbred gelding Absolut at the Intermediate Level as well as through the FEI CIC * level. Her students consistently finish in the top ten placings of their respective level in the USEA every year.

Clinics taught by Sally have been well received and contain in depth teaching in all three phases of eventing as well as written material given to further support the knowledge shared in her clinics. Her clinics stress the safety needed in this sport through deep teaching of proper balance and a work ethic built into the training of the horse. She helps each rider see the whole picture so they can go back and retrieve missing elements of the training scale.

Sally is available for Coaching at Horse Trials as well as training riders and their horses at Stone Creek Farm located just 6 miles north of Madison, Georgia at 1700 Plantation Road. Weekend informal clinics are available at your farm or one near you. We offer a cross country course with some jumps designed by John Wells. We have a sunken road complex, a prelim trahkener and ditch and wall, a training trahkener and ditch and wall as well as a novice trahkener and ditch and wall. Steeplechase fences and a galloping track are also here as well as prelim and training level corners. Groups travel from other cities and have a weekend of in depth instruction in 'off' weekends during show season. She also meets some long distance students one day early at horse trials to give them help prior to the competition.

$650.00 per month exterior open air stalls with patios and 4 board fencing. Electrical and lights, rubber mats.

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CIC * Greenwood Farms 2006

Sally and Absolut AEC Dressage phase Sept. 2006

Sally and Absolut AEC Stadium Phase

Of forty four Champion Preliminary horses Absolut was one of only a handful that finished double clear on their dressage score over what proved to be an exceptionally difficult cross country course.

>CLINIC RATES

To host a clinic the minimum requirments need to be met, please. A minimum of ten pre-paid participants for two days. Airfare or ground transportation, housing and meals provided by host. The cost per person is $100.00 per session per day. Private lesson if time permits is $85.00 for one hour or $65.00 for forty mintutes. No more than four riders per group.

Three day clinics and week long clinics meet the same criteria.

TRAINING and COACHING RATES

Private lessons $85.00 per hour at the farm. If you ride our horse there is an additional $20.00 charge.

"I highly recommend Gateway Precision reins. These reins offer the rider the feel of a non-sliding rein through a hand held loop. As a result the rider learns to ride 'through the elbow'thus feeling the importance of elastic elbows and a true connection. These reins are also great for horses who are reluctant to bend properly at the poll. The riders hand become stabilized and they can then feel the magic of sitting long in the saddle with a true connection allowing the pelvis to come forward into the hand. They are a fabulous invention and endorsed by many of our Olympic riders." Sally Buffington.
The banner above is a hot link and will take you to the website for Precision Reins. The left side of the banner features Absolut and Sally jumping the stadium phase.

Absolut 'onthe hunt' for the skinny which was the last of five questions in the second prelim water.

Aside from my riding career I have had a long career in the fine Arts. Commissioned by The American Red Cross I was honored to paint the portrait of Generla Norman H. Schwarzkopf during the war. In the fine art section of this website you may visit galleries that feature just a few of the commissioned paintings I have done.